Compliance Engineer

Compliance Engineer

Location: Mountain View/San Jose Bay Area
Team: System Engineering

The Impact You’ll Make:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Compliance Engineer to lead global product compliance for next-generation renewable energy products including utility-scale photovoltaic systems, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Power Conversion Systems (PCS), intelligent power distribution equipment, and high-voltage power electronics. This role will own compliance strategy from concept through certification, ensuring products meet global regulatory, safety, EMC, grid interconnection, environmental, and market access requirements while supporting rapid product development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own global compliance strategy throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develop certification roadmaps and regulatory plans.
• Identify applicable standards for North America and international markets.
• Support design teams to achieve compliance by design.

• Lead product safety evaluations.
• Review insulation coordination, creepage and clearance, electrical spacing, grounding, touch current, abnormal testing and fault analysis.
• Support safety risk assessments.

• Manage certification activities with UL, CSA, TÜV and other NRTLs.
• Coordinate witness testing and certification schedules.
• Review certification reports and resolve non-conformances.

• Develop EMC qualification plans.
• Support IEC 61000 immunity and emissions testing.
• Coordinate environmental qualification including IEC 60068 testing.

• Support IEEE 1547, UL 1741 SB, IEEE 1547.1 and utility interconnection requirements.
• Review inverter control functions including ride-through, Volt-VAR, Volt-Watt, Frequency-Watt and anti-islanding.

• Interpret new and evolving standards.
• Provide guidance to engineering teams.
• Maintain corporate compliance matrix.

• Prepare certification documentation, technical construction files, risk assessments and compliance reports.
• Review drawings, BOMs and design changes for regulatory impact.

• Partner with Hardware, Firmware, Systems, Reliability, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Product Management.
• Support customer audits and regulatory agency interactions.

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• 8+ years of product compliance or certification engineering experience.
• Experience working directly with UL, CSA, TÜV or equivalent certification bodies.
• Strong understanding of renewable energy products and power electronics.
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with utility-scale solar and BESS.
• Knowledge of grid codes and interconnection requirements.
• Experience leading certification projects from concept through production.
• Experience with risk analysis and functional safety.

• UL 1741, UL 1741 SA/SB, UL 62109, UL 9540, UL 9540A, UL 1998, UL 1699B.
• IEEE 1547, IEEE 1547.1, IEEE 2800.
• IEC 62109, IEC 62477, IEC 61000, IEC 60068, IEC 60990.
• NFPA 70, NEC Article 690 and 706.
• CE, UKCA, FCC, RoHS, REACH, WEEE.

Competitive Compensation Package

Health Insurance:
We offer 100% coverage of employee premiums under a Gold-level PPO plan. Dental & Vision Insurance: 50% of employee premiums are covered.

Retirement Plan: A 401(k) plan with a 6% employer match.

Minimum salary of $210,000 to maximum salary of $265,000 + equity + benefits.

The range provided is 1AP’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount will be based on job-related and non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, training, skills, and abilities. Consult with your Recruiter during the initial call to determine a more targeted range based on these job-related factors.

At 1st Avenue Power, we are on a mission to deliver simple, fast-to-deploy, customer-centric and intelligent power systems leveraging the abundance of solar to provide inexpensive and reliable clean energy to global customers from data centers to energy starved communities around the world. We envision a…